Its that time of year for the Annual Ollie OD Frank swarmathon competition

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Re: Its that time of year for the Annual Ollie OD Frank swarmathon competition

I think catching swarms may be the best part of beekeeping too me. Its such a thrill... I am at 10 this year all ready. The last one was Saturday and I was driving down the road about 6pm about dusk and my wife shouted " We just passed a Swarm of bees." I really doubted she saw bee's on the other side of the road with me driving 65 MPH.... Well it was almost dark when I finished, but we got them bees.

Re: Its that time of year for the Annual Ollie OD Frank swarmathon competition

This is my first year to try trapping a swarm. I built 5 traps and baited them with a vial of lure and a few drops of LGO. They are basically over sized deep 8 frame hives. I used untrimmed 1x12's. At the time I didn't have the ability to do rabbets, so I just used cross-pieces to hang the frames on. I've since got a router table, and hope to build a couple hive boxes this weekend.

Re: Its that time of year for the Annual Ollie OD Frank swarmathon competition

Put four traps out this year and one just got moved in. It happened to be the one next to the solar wax melter, and there's always a couple of bees around attracted by the smell of the wax. I'll be doubling down on that particular approach of having a trap next to the melter.

Re: Its that time of year for the Annual Ollie OD Frank swarmathon competition

Leslie, you have about 24 hours to edit your post if you choose to fix the link you posted. Note that your link has dual "http://" sections. That is why it doesn't work. Look for the "Edit Post" button at your original post.

If I just called it a "Bad link", then there might be confusion as to whether the URL itself was "bad" or the content at the link was "bad".